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“A fan wrote to Dave and said, ‘I hope your new stuff is faster than Metallica.’ The tempos sped up, and we became a thrash band that night”: When a fan challenged Megadeth to outpace Metallica, the band responded by cranking up the tempos
In the summer of 1983, 18-year-old David Ellefson had moved from Jackson, Minnesota to Los Angeles, where he met guitarist Dave Mustaine, who had recently been fired from a new band named Metallica.
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